Word: nisei
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johnny was persuaded to decline the honor in favor of his runner-up. His runner-up won the California title. As a consolation prize, Nisei John Fujio Aiso (rhymes with why so) was allowed to go to Washington for the ride...
...Washington, Johnny met Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira who advised him to get a change from the Pacific Coast atmosphere with its anti-Nisei discrimination and see something of the "older America." The ambassador remarked that his predecessor had received an honorary degree from Brown University. Johnny Aiso went to Brown, graduated cum laude in 1931, delivered the class valedictory. Then he went back to California, became a lawyer in Los Angeles...
When World War II came, U.S. Citizen John Aiso entered the U.S. Army as a private, rose to lieutenant colonel, highest rank attained by any Nisei...